Alan Ladd Quotes

When I was on the air a lot my throat and vocal chords got tired. If you don’t vary your tones you can’t get pretty tired of your own voice.

What good will a tax break do me if I’m crippled for life?

Strangers still leave me self-conscious.

Our children were trained to look after each other.

Not every father gets a chance to start his son off in his own footsteps.

Nobody’s strong enough to stand up under a flood of weak material.

My parents were so poor when I was a kid, I never went anywhere. I take our youngsters with us because I don’t know anything that teaches them so much.

Maybe I thought too much about picking up the money and not enough about the really good parts.

Maybe I can’t act, but I know the gimmicks. I studied acting all my life and know what’s good for me.

Just as Jimmy Stewart and Tyrone Power get 50 percent of the profits, so do I.

It’s natural to want your kids to have all the things you didn’t have.

It’s a funny thing about me. I don’t have any interest in food most of the time now, although when I was a kid I was always hungry.

It seems only reasonable that the people have a right to know virtually everything about the personality they are buying each time they put their money through the box office.

If you can figure out my success on the screen, you’re a better man than I.

If I had my way, I’d do all my entertaining on the front steps.

I’ve always had a great respect for the picture business. It’s been good to me.

I’m the most insecure guy in Hollywood. If you had it good all your life, you figure it can’t ever get bad, but when you had it bad, you wonder how long a thing like this will last.

I’m shy and can’t for the life of me barge around and slap people on the back. I sit in a corner by myself and am tickled to death when someone comes over to talk to me.

I’m no good with words but I’ll find ways from time to time to show you how grateful I am.